Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only returners that some companies regard as worth training are young high-flyers coming back from maternity leave ; it wo n't hurt to shake them up a little . |
| 2 | Steve and I shared the one room upstairs and tried to do it up a bit . |
| 3 | It might be just what he needs to wake him up a bit . |
| 4 | The doctors , you know , they 've got to patch you up a bit . ’ |
| 5 | They 've got to fill it up a bit . |
| 6 | ‘ So why has Madge Grimsilk never offered to run me up a quick ball-dress on the wardrobe sewing machine ? ’ |
| 7 | Now sorry Alan I 've got to turn you up a bit you do n't mind do you ? |
| 8 | I was going to add it up a bit . |
| 9 | opposed to the forty in the U K so we 've got to get it up a bit . |
| 10 | It was when Izzie began to make him up a mattress to sleep on that he said , ‘ Well , just tonight . |
| 11 | ‘ Honey , ’ he said , without thinking , ‘ it 's time you started to live it up a bit . ’ |
| 12 | And then , leaning back in his chair , lounging like all the gentry seemed to do , as if they were permanently half asleep and just about to put their spurred and booted feet on the table , he 'd said , " If the new government won t play your way then you 'll have to stir it up a little , wo n't you ? " |
| 13 | You 'll have to have it up a little bit or the same thing 'll happen at |
| 14 | We 'd have to jazz it up a little , get a few prominent vocalists to sing over the coolant 's bubble , a few name producers to chip the chilly vibration down to its component cubes and then restack it into a great wall of freezing sound . |
| 15 | i pulled this of rec.sport.soccer ( see last part of mail ) — the post was rather mingled so i have tried to fix it up a little : take it for what it is — a post from memory from a guy somewhere and no mentioning of what year/what cup/ etc. i think the poster has messed up or something — my guess is that the home match is the first mentioned : meaning that G has beaten some respectable teams like PSV , Roma and Frankfurt at home and beating Roma and Frankfurt at aggregate . |
| 16 | We 're going to have to heat it up a little bit . |
| 17 | When you are quite happy and confident with your untidy loops you can start to clean them up a little . |
| 18 | Just imagine him saying that to a reporter trying to dig up more dirt … trying to stir it up a bit . |
| 19 | Have to cheer him up a bit ! |
| 20 | I am proposing to dress it up a little , as Joyce did to his Nora , as a symptom of high-mindedness . |
| 21 | You have to dress it up a bit . |